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D. M. READ. POGKEIBOOK (No Model.)

Patented Jan. 9, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL M. HEAD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POCKET-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,565, dated January 9, 1894f Application filed June 15, 1893. Serial No. 477,702. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, DANIEL M. READ, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket-Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in pocket books, and it has for its object to provide such a book with a box pocket, usually located exteriorly upon the pocket book, and to so connect the book with the box pocket that the outer face of the latter will be practically flush with the corresponding face of the former, and whereby also that portion of the box pocket which would necessarily extend into the body of the pocket book, will be so shaped as not to interfere with the inner pocket or pockets of the book, or render it in any manner inconvenient or uncomfortable to remove objects from or place articles in the inner pockets.

Another object of the invention is to provide a pocket book with a box pocket adapted for carrying stamps, cards, memoranda or other objects or articles to which speedy access is desirable, and which articles are to be 7 kept from moisture,in proper shapeand unsoiled.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming apart of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pocket book, illustrating the application thereto of a box pocket adapted to hold stamps, or other small objects, the pocket being shown open. Fig. 2 isatransversesection through the pocket book and the box pocket, the box pocket being shown closed. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the box pocket removed from the pocket book. Fig. llillustrates a slight modification in the construction of the pocket, illustrating it as made of sufficient size to receive cards and like articles. Fig. 5 is a de tail perspective view of a frame adapted for use in connection with one form of pocket. Fig. 6 is a plan view of a pocket in connection with which the frame shown in Fig. 5 is employed; and Fig. 7 is a detail view of a cover which may be applied to the pocket or to the frame shown in Fig. 5.

The auxiliary pocket A may be located upon the inner portion of the pocket book, but preferably it is placed upon the outer face, as shown in Fig. 1. The pocket A, comprises practically a pocket section 10 and a flange or marginal section 11, the flange or marginal section standing at an angle to the upper edge of the pocket section, and being more or less straight. The flange section of the box pocket may be provided with any suitable devices for securing the flange and box pocket to the pocket book. A simple form of such a device consists in forming spurs 12, integral with the flange 11, which spurs, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, are bent downward through the surface upon which the box pocket is to be located, the inner ends of the spurs being ordinarily clinched.

The section 10 of the box pocket is provided with one or more beveled or inclined sides 13; in the drawings the box pocket is shown as of rectangular shape, and all four of its sides are inclined from the flange section 11 downward to the bottom of the pocket; but it will be understood that the box pocket may be of any shape that fancy may dictate. A cover 14, is hinged at one side upon the box pocket, and the said cover is spring-controlled in any approved manner, whereby when it is thrown to the open position it will so remain, and when closed will be held in that position. When the'cover is closed it is preferably flush with the flange 11, or practically so; and in order that it may be raised readily a tongue 15, is formed at one edge of the cover, and a depression or cavity 16, is made in the flange and body of the box pocket to receive said tongue, as shown in Fig. 2.

By beveling or inclining the sides of the pocket section,the said section will not interfere to any appreciable extent with the use of the regular pocket of the pocket book into which it may extend, as is likewise shown in Fig. 2, since the beveled walls of the box pocket will offer but little obstruction to objects being placed in the ordinary pocket or removed from it.

The box pocket shown in Fig.1 is of a size adapted to receive stamps or'like articles; in

Fig. 4, however, the box pocket is shown as face of the flange section; and the edges of the pocket book cover, orthe pocket book back or face, are adapted to enter the U- flanges of the auxiliary pocket, and are socured thereto in any suitable orapproved' manner.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated a flat skeleton frame 18 provided with spurs 19, and adapted to receive a cover 14:; and this frame may be used'in connection with any approved form of pocket to surround the same, the pocket being closed by the cover 14; or the said frame maybe used in connection with the box pocket shown in Fig. 6, which issubstantially'the same as that shown in Fig. 3 with the omission of the spurs, as when this box pocket is placed in position upon the pocket book itis held in place by the frame shown in Fig. 5, which is placed over it, and-the attachment of the frame to the pocket book I will insure theattachment of the box pocket.

In Fig. 7 I have shown in detail one form of the cover 14 which has been heretofore referred; to, in which it will be observed that upon the opposite side to that carrying a tongue 15 a lug 20, is located, forming a portion of a hinge.

The box pocket when attached to the stamps, cards, and other articles to which it is desirable to obtain ready access and which should be kept clean and free from moisture, maybe carried in the box pocket without 1nterfering with the interior pockets of the book. I Furthermore, by reason of the beveled sides of the box pocket, articles may he readily slipped out therefrom after the cover has been opened.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to soon re by Letters Patent- The combination with the pocketbook proper, having a depression or cavity as shown, of the metallic box-pocket composed of a marginal frame or section having the injner edge 13 inclined downward, the depression 16 and means for attaching it to the pocket-book, and a cover having a hinge and tongue and applied to the box-pocket frame,

as shown and described.

DANIEL M. READ.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, C; SEDGWICK. 

